I have many suggestions for improvement for this subject. I must unfortunately admit that I learnt close to nothing. I say that knowing my personal responsibility in the learning process. But despite being a conscientious, organised, engaged, and competent student, I learnt nothing. Firstly, all lectures (excluding guest-lecturers) were extremely poor. Typically, they were two hours of in-articulate blabbering to chaotically presented slides which were rarely organised into a coherent set of information. The subject coordinator didn’t seem very prepared, wasn’t able to stay on topic (because there never seemed to be a well-defined topic for any given lecture), and often repeated himself. Secondly, the further learning resources provided were not very helpful. Unlike most subjects which provide carefully curated, theme-organised, properly titled resources/readings, this subject unpredictably provided links to random resources (for seemingly unapparent reasons). Very rarely was there links provided to engaging external resources (videos, or enlightening articles etc.). Instead, the subject coordinator would send us links to his google drive of photos he took on the weekend of the site. To be frank, I don’t study to get an insight into what you saw on your weekend. Thirdly, the subject was far too disorganised. The CANVAS page, like the lectures but worse, was in shambles. It was the most unorganised subject page I have ever experienced. There was no lecture tab, just links to zoom recordings on the lectures buried in random announcements with confusing titles and contents. Announcements are meant to be short and informative. Not 1000 words + and the medium by which you deliver your subject content. Both the lectures and announcements were so eclectic in their presentation that I got anxiety looking at them. And I am not very anxiety prone. The hap-hazard variation of text style, font, and colour made the content all the more confusing. I must admit I am quite orderly so naturally such things disturb me, but even for less-orderly people I know, such chaos was stressful. Lectures should be pleasant, engaging, informative, and easy to watch. Not psychologically discomforting and difficult. I never knew what was going on, what the lecture topic even was, or where the lecturer was going with anything. The only lectures that were enjoyable were those from guest-lecturers. Now onto the assignments. The brief was so vague. It made no sense. The deliverables were unclear and not enforced. "5 x A1s or equivalent" for the final presentation, with no specifications of what to include on them, other than through a link to some MSDx examples from previous years - the students of which being evidently as confused as me as there was no consistency across their work. Not to say there was inconsistency within their work (as I was impressed!). The interim submission was unequitable and unprofessional, split across two weeks (allowing some students more time), to which the only compensation was to submit approximately (!) 60%, as opposed to 70%, if you were allocated the first week, which was not enforced. For both assignments, I spent the first 2 weeks just trying to figure out what the hell I was required to submit. My group pulled through and got a good grade, but not because we aligned ourselves with the rubric or expected submittals (because there was none), but because our work looked nice. Speaking for myself only, my component of the group work wasn’t the strongest. My analysis was nothing compared to what I produced last year in my Architecture studios. But I made it look pretty, fooling the coordinator as to the amount of work I actually put into it, and got a decent grade. There is so much more I want to say, because I am honestly very upset as to my learning experience this Semester. I have regressed since my previous studios. I didn't improve at all. I learnt nothing new. I was never pushed. I was never "tutored". I was just confused. Week in week out. And so were my classmates it seems. To say I am appalled by this subject being a third-year landscape architecture studio at Australia's "Number 1 University" is an understatement!

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2022